The second killing in as many days was recorded
yesterday in Harlan County, when W.K. Hall, 50 years old, was shot and killed on Martin's
Fork, one mile west of Cawood.

Louis Swanson, 24 years old, son-in-law of the
slain man, is in jail here charged with the killing.

According to the story told at the jail by
Swanson, Hall fired three shots at him as he was picking apples in an orchard near the
Hall home, one of them taking the sack used in gathering the apples from his hand.

Swanson returned the fire, he declared, firing
one shot at his father-in-law. Hall fell to the ground and Swanson, took to his heels.

Swanson later came to Harlan and surrendered to
authorities here. At the time of the surrender, he was unable to say how badly his
father-in-law was injured. A party of deputies started for the scene immediately and on
their return declared that Hall had been killed almost instantly.

Swanson, in telling his version of the shooting
at the jail here, declared that he did not know what his father-in-law had against him.

According to deputy sheriffs yesterday
afternoon, Hall had been charged with the murder of the boy's father a year ago. Hall was
acquitted of the charge at the January term of the Harlan Circuit Court.